It's a whole new Boston Travel Guy!- I'm still bringing you travel deals from Boston, but I'm adding eating and drinking tips for the Boston/New England Area, coming from a Restaurant Industry Professional.

-After-dinner cocktails at The Red Door, located above Dos Amigos Burritos. Sometimes a small cover charge, but nice loungy bar with leather couches and usually DJs playing downtempo music to chill out to, really cozy.

-We had a nice Portsmouth Restaurant Week lunch at Blue Mermaid, not sure how it is normally.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Taqueria Jalisco was highly recommended to me for quality tacos in East Boston. It's located in Day Square. It's a cute little place, no A/C, and the tacos were truly very good. I tried tongue, "adobado de cabeza" (cabeza means head, but I'm not sure which part of the head these were from), and carnitas. Each came on 2 very soft, warm, smooth corn tortillas, with cilantro and chopped white onion, limes for squeezing on the side, for $2.25/each. They also came with two salsas/sauces, a green one and a brown one, both very delicious and spicy, and very different from each other. Great tacos, if you're in the area, give them a try!

Friday, July 19, 2013

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Monday, July 15, 2013

Just went to this place, heard about it from Clayton at Short and Main in Gloucester. He's a great bartender, so we trusted his recommendation for a great bar and restaurant in Beverly, a town neither of us had ever visited before. The Barrel House was AWESOME. It's a joint venture between two Eastern Standard alums, Chef Patrick Shea and Barman Sean Maher. Great food. Amazing cocktails. Excellent wine, beer and spirit selections. Fantastic dark wood room with tin ceiling and dark red leather chairs. It's a serious, downtown-type restaurant, in Beverly! I would even say it's worth the trip up there just to eat at Barrel House. Enjoy!